Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The hole truth

The folks over at Nature.com have an interesting story about the history of the anus.

Yeah. You read that correctly.

I thought this was the most interesting part:
"So he and others have suggested that over time, the mouth elongated and then separated into a mouth and anus. Once the body included a gut with two ends, the anus could migrate to the far end of animal."
So now, I think, we have an explanation for the phrases "talking out of your ass" and "You know about real life like my ass chews bubblegum."

And while this article explains the origin of the anus, it still doesn't explain how so many of them end up in front of me on the freeway.

Pun not intended.

(via Monkeyfilter)